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January 21, 2020 The priest kidnapped by jihadists in Nigeria was killed in early January. The Nigerian president announced this in a statement.The religious, Lawan Andimi, local leader of the Christian Association, was kidnapped on January 3 by militiamen from Boko Haram, an armed group linked to ISIS, in the state of Adamawa, in northeastern Nigeria.
President Muhammadu Buhari called the murder "cruel, inhuman and deliberately provocative" and warned the perpetrators that "they will pay a high price for their actions".
Andimi is only the latest victim of the bloody campaign of Nigerian Islamists against Christians. Last month ISIS announced that it had killed 14 kidnapped Christians in the state of Borno, also in northeastern Nigeria. ISIS had released a video of the prisoner priest.
After the assassination of Reverend Andimi, Amnesty International reported that Boko Haram attacked his hometown in the state of Borno, "showing once again a total contempt for human life".
According to Amnesty International "since last December, Boko Haram has launched an escalation of attacks against civilians and infrastructure in the northeast". The NGO launched an appeal to the authorities "to redouble efforts to save hundreds of civilian prisoners" of the jihadists. According to UN estimates in ten years, the armed conflict in Nigeria against the Boko Haram jihadists, which spread to Niger, Chad and Cameroon, resulted in over 36,000 deaths and two million displaced people in Nigeria alone.